ThoughtGathering™

If you’re a creative, detail-oriented thinker who struggles with organization, you’re not alone. Many people with brilliant minds - filled with excellent ideas - have difficulty organizing their thoughts. These executive function challenges often keep their ideas swirling in their heads, trapped, and unshared with the world.

Traditional organization methods, designed for top-down thinkers, fail to meet the needs of bottom-up thinkers: people who build their understanding from the details up to the big picture. Without an approach to organization that matches how their minds work, bottom-up thinkers feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and stuck. Attempts by others to help can feel stifling because traditional methods don’t fit the way bottom-up thinkers naturally process information.

ThoughtGathering™ empowers bottom-up thinkers to approach organizing differently. Using this novel methodology, you will learn how to develop your own systems for managing your materials, time, and thoughts, freeing you to confidently share your brilliance with the world.

The Approach

ThoughtGathering™ is a confirming approach to understanding and using organization, designed specifically for bottom-up thinkers. It acknowledges your individual way of processing information and provides a reliable method for organizing your ideas, one that is consistent with how your brain works.

With ThoughtGathering™, you will learn to:

• Organize Your Thoughts: Build systems to organize anything from your sock drawer to your dissertation.
• Take On Your Tasks and Time: Tackle piles, manage your tasks, and plan your projects with confidence.
• Communicate Clearly: Turn your swirling ideas into concise explanations and clear writing that others can understand.
• Lose the Frustration: Stop struggling with prescriptive methods that weren’t made for you.

ThoughtGathering™ is most quickly learned by taking the ThoughtGathering™ Foundations online course. You can do this on your own or by gaining access to community features through ThoughGathering™ Foundations+ with Group Coaching or Individual Coaching.

The Learners

Some people need to have a deep understanding of organization in order to be able use it. If you were provided with organizers and tools, but had a hard time accepting them or using them, you might need a different approach to organization, one that teaches you how to create the systems that you need.

ThoughtGathering™ validates your bottom-up approach to organization and empowers you to succeed on your terms.

The ThoughtGathering™ approach is for:

• Creative professionals who feel limited by their ability to organize projects and communicate their ideas

• Neurodivergent and twice-exceptional adults with executive function challenges, ADHD, language-based learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia) and processing speed weaknesses, including those with related anxiety

• Graduate students who are trying to collect what they are reading, store new learning for later reference, and succinctly share their own work

• Family, friends, and colleagues who are looking to support the bottom-up thinkers in their lives - effectively - through enhanced understanding

The Benefits

You will learn how to move from chaos to clarity, and you’ll feel empowered doing it. Out with the days of overwhelm, misunderstandings, and negative self-talk.... creating space for clarity, productivity, ownership, and a new sense of calm.

With ThoughtGathering™, you will:

• Settle your mind to a quieter place

• Tackle your piles, projects, and presentations with ease
  

• Look at organizational tasks as fun, little logic puzzles

• Understand that you are not flawed

• Be part of a supportive and empowered community of people who get it

The Coaching Option

You can learn the principles of ThoughtGathering™ through ThoughtGathering™ Foundations - Self Study, but being part of a group of people who understand can help strengthen the experience when learning a new skill.

Learning together through ThoughtGathering™ Group Coaching and Individual Coaching can show you that you are not alone in your struggle or on your path forward. There are so many people out there who have had experiences just like yours. They are smart, highly competent people who struggle to complete projects, write documents, and file their taxes on time. If you feel alone in your struggle, you don't need to anymore.

Join in to learn together, share your experience, empower your peers, celebrate your accomplishments, and laugh a bunch, because people are fun.